Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> However, the ending -as in <wastulas> is simply the thematic
> nominative (if it's a nominative) or the Hittite thematic
> genitive (if it's a genitive). The thematic declension may
> originally have conveyed something like a definite meaning,
> but one cannot attribute the double function of definite
> marker _and_ genitive marker to the single morpheme *-os.

I cannot see the basis for calling it "thematic": -as is the
genitive ending of *all* nouns in Hittite, regardless of stem class.
With that in mind one cannot use -as to demonstrate very much.

Jens